Hanna Jameson
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Born
in Winchester, The United Kingdom
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Influences
David Peace, J.G. Ballard Graham Greene;
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Member Since
March 2013
The Last
28 editions
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2019
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Are You Happy Now
5 editions
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2023
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Something You Are (London Underground, #1)
13 editions
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2012
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Girl Seven (London Underground, #2)
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2014
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Road Kill (London Underground, #3)
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Reports from the Deep End: Stories Inspired by J. G. Ballard
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“It’s important for people to feel like their lives have purpose,” I said. “And it doesn’t have purpose if you don’t believe you’re getting a sticker and some candy at the end of it? Like this life doesn’t have meaning unless you then live on somewhere else? That doesn’t even make sense!”
― The Last
― The Last
“The human body is weird like that. When you relax for a moment, that’s when the physical burnout catches up with you.”
― The Last
― The Last
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Rosewater by Tade Thompson
2018, 432pages, 3.78 stars
$6.99 Kindle, cheap used print, at the library
2018, 432pages, 3.78 stars
$6.99 Kindle, cheap used print, at the library
"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless—people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again—but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future."
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1953, 194 pages, 3.98 stars
$12.99 Kindle, cheap used print, at the library
1953, 194 pages, 3.98 stars
$12.99 Kindle, cheap used print, at the library
"Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known."
The Last by Hanna Jameson
2019, 340 pages, 3.54 stars
Kindle $12.99, cheap used print, may be at the library
2019, 340 pages, 3.54 stars
Kindle $12.99, cheap used print, may be at the library
"Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife’s text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as he’s waiting in the lobby of the L’Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to his wife, he receives a string of horrifying push notifications. Washington, DC has been hit with a nuclear bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. That’s all he knows before news outlets and social media goes black—and before the clouds on the horizon turn orange.
Now, two months later, there are twenty survivors holed up at the hotel, a place already tainted by its strange history of suicides and murders. Those who can’t bear to stay commit suicide or wander off into the woods. Jon and the others try to maintain some semblance of civilization. But when the water pressure disappears, and Jon and a crew of survivors investigate the hotel’s water tanks, they are shocked to discover the body of a young girl.
As supplies dwindle and tensions rise, Jon becomes obsessed with investigating the death of the little girl as a way to cling to his own humanity. Yet the real question remains: can he afford to lose his mind in this hotel, or should he take his chances in the outside world? "
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
2016, 435 pages, 4.37 stars
Kindle $9.99, cheap used, at the library
2016, 435 pages, 4.37 stars
Kindle $9.99, cheap used, at the library
"Thou shalt kill.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.
Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. "
Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
2008, 367 pages, 3.60 stars
Kindle $6.31, cheap used print, may be at the library
2008, 367 pages, 3.60 stars
Kindle $6.31, cheap used print, may be at the library
"A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight."
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